Fairer distribution of work and more fine-grained control over visit priorities for FSR (v0.30.0)

This new version of the Timefold Platform comes with updates to these Timefold Models:

Employee Shift Scheduling (v1 | Stable)

We have added a video introducing the most common challenges when scheduling shifts for employees.

Field Service Routing (v1 | Stable)

Fine-grained rule priorities
: It’s now possible to define visit priorities with numbers 1 to 10 (both included). Previously only 4 priorities were supported. This allows you more fine-grained control. We are deprecating the old values, but they continue to work and have been mapped to corresponding numbers. See Upgrading to the latest versions for details and New and noteworthy for details on the 10 levels.
Balance work fair across technicians
: We have added a new constraint to the model that allows you to balance the workload across technicians based on their time worked. The constraint also allows for historical data to be considered. This can be useful when you want to balance the workload based on past hours worked by the technicians. Please refer to the fairness and load balancing guide for details.
Visualization improvements
: Several improvements and bugfixes were made to the visualization of planning solutions, including indications of pinned items and showing
freezeDeparturesBeforeTime
times.
Bugfix for visit time window validations: Validation for visit time windows was too strict in certain cases. This has been fixed.

This new version of the Timefold Platform also comes with the following improvements:

Soft Delete of Run Data
: We now have support for restoring deleted runs for a limited amount of time. When you delete a run from your model’s run overview, they are now kept in trash for 7 days. After those 7 days the run will be permanently deleted. During those 7 days you can go to your run overview and add a filter for the property “Deleted”. If you filter on those, you can select previously deleted runs and click the Restore button.
Dark Mode
: We’re launching Dark Mode on the platform. By default the UI will use your system settings, but if you prefer to override that, go to the footer of the platform to choose between light or dark.
Several stability and performance improvements.

Please let us know if you have feedback.